Aqueducts and Water Management in Ancient Rome

The Romans constructed numerous aqueducts in order to bring water from often distant sources into cities and towns, supplying public baths, latrines, fountains and private households.

Aqueducts also provided water for mining operations, milling, farms, and gardens.

Aqueducts moved water through gravity alone, along a slight downward gradient within conduits of stone, brick or concrete. Most conduits were buried beneath the ground, and followed the contours of the terrain; obstructing peaks were circumvented or, less often, tunneled through.

Where valleys or lowlands intervened, the conduit was carried on bridgework, or its contents fed into high-pressure lead, ceramic or stone pipes and siphoned across. Most aqueduct systems included sedimentation tanks, which helped reduce any water-borne debris.

Most Roman aqueducts proved reliable, and durable; some were maintained into the early modern era, and a few are still partly in use.

Source: Wikipedia and Learn With Fun Youtube

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• Water Access
• Water Supply
• Integrated Urban Water Management
• Integrated Water Management
• Water Supply
• Drinking Water Managment
• Water Management
• Infrastructure
• Aquaducts
• Integrated Infrastructure
• Water Resource Management
• Water Resources Management